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ntel ships 2.4 GHz Pentium 4

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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We know you where worrying about this, but relax, the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4s are shipping. The chips codenamed Northwood are Intel’s first chips to be built using the .13-process and 200mm wafers but next month Intel plans to start releasing chips built using the .13-process and the new 300mm wafers. This means more chips to the wafer and more bang for the buck for Intel and, it is hoped, for the rest of us. the 2.4 GHz is priced at $560 each in quantities of 1,000. Thus expect price drops for the last brand new chips. Intel says they have…

Apple updates DVD Studio Pro 1.5 for Mac OS X

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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Apple has introduced the latest version of its DVD Studio Pro, the 1.5 version has been optimized for Max OS X. The OS X advantage gives the program the ability to do MPEG encoding and other work in background. Other new features include integration with Final Cut Pro that lets users set chapter markers in in Final Cut Pro that will be carried over to DVD Studio as DVD chapters. Apple claims that DVD Studio Pro is the most widely used professional DVD authoring tool on the market. We haven’t counted ourselves, so we’re just passing along information. We do believe…

AMD gets new endorsements for Opteron

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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AMD is building an environment for its new Opteron—their first chip to be introduced using the Hammer technology. Obviously, a hunky chip like this needs graphics, and AMD announced that 3DLabs, ATI, Matrox and SiS have committed to developing products for the Opteron chip. The Opteron will support AGP-8X graphics as well as use AMD’s own HyperTransport and x86-64 technology giving the world a platform that can both advance into the new computing paradigm of 64-bit computing while maintaining a bridge to the x86 world to ensure a smooth transition for software and hardware developers—at least that’s the plan.

ATI and PalmSource announce licensing deal

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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Sometimes, all you have to do is speculate a little and suddenly the answers are handed to you. (It really works when you go out on a limb and speculate in public.) Recently, when writing about the potential of ATI's Imageon chip for handhelds we noted that the first announcement of a win was for a PocketPC-based device by Toshiba. And, we noted that all the demos we had seen were on PocketPC devices including the iPaq. At PC Expo however, ATI and PalmSource announced a licensing deal through which ATI will create a "complete silicon solution for Palm OS licensees."…

Toshiba opts for Spatializer in its Edge RD-X2 DVD recorder

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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Toshiba’s brand new RD-X2 recorder is a DVD-R/RAM product that enables users to record up to six hours of content on a single disk. The way this works out on formats is that users can record to the DVD-Video format on DVD-R disks and be assured their content will probably (that’s a very strong probably) play on most machines. If they have a DVD-RAM machine, users can record more data faster to that format. In addition, the RD-X2 includes an 80-gigabyte hard disc drive for DVR (digital video recording). And, oh yes, we almost forgot our headline. Toshiba is using the…

ATI and PalmSource announce licensing deal

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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Sometimes, all you have to do is speculate a little and suddenly the answers are handed to you. (It really works when you go out on a limb and speculate in public.) Recently, when writing about the potential of ATI’s Imageon chip for handhelds we noted that the first announcement of a win was for a PocketPC-based device by Toshiba. And, we noted that all the demos we had seen were on PocketPC devices including the iPaq. At PC Expo however, ATI and PalmSource announced a licensing deal through which ATI will create a “complete silicon solution for Palm OS licensees.”…

Toshiba opts for Spatializer in its Edge RD-X2 DVD recorder

Posted by Webmaster on October 7th 2002 | Permalink
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Toshiba’s brand new RD-X2 recorder is a DVD-R/RAM product that enables users to record up to six hours of content on a single disk. The way this works out on formats is that users can record to the DVD-Video format on DVD-R disks and be assured their content will probably (that’s a very strong probably) play on most machines. If they have a DVD-RAM machine, users can record more data faster to that format. In addition, the RD-X2 includes an 80-gigabyte hard disc drive for DVR (digital video recording). And, oh yes, we almost forgot our headline. Toshiba is using the…

ATI joins Intel’s Developer Network for PCI Express®

Posted by Webmaster on September 9th 2002 | Permalink
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In other news, ATI has underlined its commitment to PCI Xpress with an announcement that the company actively worked with Intel in the development of the new bus and that they see it as the successor to AGP as a graphics bus interface. ATI says features like virtual channels, quality of service and isochrony make PCI Express a suitable approach for graphics. Certainly, PCI Express has been suggested as a good approach for the graphics bus but we believe ATI is the first to spell it out.

ATI issues earnings warning; pledges allegiance to PCI Express

Posted by Webmaster on September 9th 2002 | Permalink
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ATI slid an earnings warning in under the radar on Monday while much of the high tech world was paying attention to Intel and reading the tea leaves left by Paul Otellini. The market responded with equanimity as ATI had already laid the groundwork for this one. The company announced that its revenues for the fourth quarter will be in the range of $235-240 million. The company said its revenues are going to fall short of guidance offered in June 2002 as a result in weakness in the PC and notebook market. The company was surprised by less enthusiastic sales in…

ATI says we got yer digital TV tuners right here

Posted by Webmaster on September 2nd 2002 | Permalink
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There’s a lot of gnashing of teeth and general wailing in response to the FCC’s announcement that TV manufacturers will be required to add digital TV tuners to their large screen TVs by July 2004 and all TVs by July 2007. But ATI says hey, we’ll be happy to do business with you we just happen to have a very nice Xillion 220 system-on-chip processor, a NXT2004 VSB/QAM demodulator, and the Theater 2000 NTSC/BTSC decoder. Manufacturers will still need a tuner and they’re complaining mightily that the added costs will add $250 to the price of a TV. We figure they’re…

Jobs to world: Okay, if the Power PC processors aren’t as fast as x86s, we’ll just use two of them

Posted by Webmaster on September 2nd 2002 | Permalink
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With their customary audaciousness, Apple has introduced a new line of PowerMacs which feature dual Power PC processors at speeds from 867 MHz, 1 GHz or 1.4 GHz. The new G4 machines feature XServe, Apple’s server architecture supporting up to 42 1U stacks with up to 630 Gflops processing power and support for storage up to half a terabyte machine and 20 terabytes per 42U rack. That’s a lotta Mac isn’t it? Well even Macs on the desktop are now a lot more Mac with the latest G4s supporting DDR-SDRAM via a 133 MHz system bus, 2 MByte L3 cache, etc.…

Palm 130 doesn’t quite make it to 65K colors but whose counting?

Posted by Webmaster on August 20th 2002 | Permalink
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Palm has had to admit that its m130 handheld, the one with the slogan “as colorful as your life” is actually a little less colorful than advertised. The machine is capable of only 58,621 color rather than 65,536. The problem apparently lies with the screen of the new handheld which sells for $249. Instead of using 16-bit technology which produces 65,536, it uses 12-bit technology which produces 4,096 colors and then dithers it up to 58,621. The news is being reported by Reuters and Wired News and so far Palm has admitted the that there are indeed 11% less colors in…

Where’s Rick?

Posted by Webmaster on August 1st 2002 | Permalink
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Rick Belluzzo is the new CEO of Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, California. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, this seems a step down for Belluzzo who has flown pretty high as CEO of SGI (when SGI was still flying reasonably high itself), and as COO and Ballmer heir-apparent at Microsoft. But, we see this as a more positive move for Belluzzo who was able to ride HP’s printer division to the top of the market. Storage has become sexy again and Quantum can give Belluzzo the chance to build. When he left Microsoft, Belluzzo said he wanted to head his…

Gateway goes into home projectors

Posted by Webmaster on May 6th 2002 | Permalink
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The cow company is willing to try anything, but their current plans have consistently addressed the emerging digital TV market. Last year it was plasma screens and this year the company has announced plans to sell digital projectors. This time out, however, the projectors are aimed at the education and small business markets. Gateway is reselling two projects from an unnamed supplier, the 205 SVGA and the 210 XGA. the projectors are lightweight, portable models. We are willing to be that the company will follow up with projectors for the home. Gateway has also announced another restructuring and the company has…

And the beat goes on; AMD introduces Athlon 4 1500+ for notebooks

Posted by Webmaster on January 28th 2002 | Permalink
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AMD’s latest processor is for notebooks. The new mobile processor is the Athlon 4 1500+ featuring QuantiSpeed and AMD PowerNow! Technology. The new part is built at the Dresden Fab 30 using AMD’s .18-micron process. As you know, this new processor may be named the Athlon 4 1500+, but in reality it is an Athlon 4 1.33 Ghz chip. We realize that AMD is going to make it harder and harder for us to find (or remember) what the actual clock speeds are on these chips as they publish the name and not the megahertz, but we’ll keep trying to keep…

MPEG-2 LA strikes again, this time at Dell

Posted by Webmaster on December 10th 2001 | Permalink
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December 2001: Just because it’s a standard doesn’t mean there aren’t patent holders lurking in the bushes, and nowhere is this more true than in the confusing jungle of MPEG-2. The MPEG-LA group, formed in 1996 as a limited liability company, has emerged as a major coalition of patent holders and includes Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Scientific-Atlanta, Sony Corp., U.S. Philips Corp. and Victor Co. of Japan. This group owns 44 patents in MPEG technology. Also part of the group are Columbia University and the City of New York, which also own rights to several MPEG-2 Patents. The group has already taken…